Chapter 19 of Smoke of the .45 is here in full — 272 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 19 of Smoke of the .45 is here in full — 272 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“COME AND GET HIM!” Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed. The dust cloud in back of them came on apace. For an hour the fugitives held their advantage. After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
Chapter 19 of Smoke of the .45 is here in full — 272 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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(poetic, literary) quickly
From this reading “The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.”
in a close relation or position in time or space
From this reading “Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.”
make overcast or cloudy
From this reading “The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.”
remove the dust from
From this reading “The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.”
plural of “fugitive” — someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
From this reading “For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.”
obtain
From this reading “After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.”
possessive form of “johnny” — “Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
plural of “pursuer” — a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
From this reading “After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.”
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In this reading “The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.”
In this reading “After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.”
In this reading “For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.”
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the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
From this reading For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.
later than; following
From this reading After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “COME AND GET HIM!”
(poetic, literary) quickly
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
in a close relation or position in time or space
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
make overcast or cloudy
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “COME AND GET HIM!”
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
remove the dust from
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
past form of “follow” — to travel behind, go after, come after
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.
recently made, produced, or harvested
From this reading After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
plural of “fugitive” — someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
From this reading For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.
obtain
From this reading After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “COME AND GET HIM!”
occupied or in the control of; often used in combination
From this reading For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.
plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “COME AND GET HIM!”
plural of “horse” — solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
From this reading After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
From this reading For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
possessive form of “johnny” — “Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
an organization to gain political power
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
plural of “pursuer” — a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
From this reading After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading For an hour the fugitives held their advantage.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The dust cloud in back of them came on apace.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading After that the pursuers’ fresh horses began to gain.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Long before Johnny’s party made the hills they could see that they were closely followed.
Chapter 19 of Smoke of the .45 by Harry Sinclair Drago holds 272 sentences, grouped into 55 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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